Volume 24, No. 6 June 2010 Meet Our New Officers and Board Members The Pacifica Chapter Board happily announces the election of three new officers, the re-election of its Vice- President, and the appointment of two new Members at Large. The new Board officers and members will serve two-year terms beginning June 1. Dalton Cantey will be our new President. We could say he has been re-elected, since he was president of the chapter in 1994, but a few years have intervened. Dalton also serves as the coordinator of playday groups, driving up from Santa Cruz every month to combine people with music. Ricardo Hofer has been re-elected as Vice President, for his third term, proving himself to be a tireless leader on behalf of the chapter. Our new Secretary is Carolyn Butler, who recently joined the Ricardo Hofer chapter. And our new Treasurer is Alice Benedict, who Vice-President has been a playing member for 10 years but is new to the Board. The two new Members at Large are Ellen Fisher and Betsy St. Aubin. ~ Mary Elliott and Lyle York

Carolyn Butler Secretary

Dalton Cantey Alice Benedict President Treasurer

Ellen Fisher Betsy St. Aubin Board Member at Large Board Member at Large Membership Address Update Donating to VdGS-Pacifica Pj Savage The Pacifica Chapter is an affiliate of the San Francisco 20 Glengreen St. Early Music Society (SFEMS), and along with other Santa Rosa CA 95409 privileges this affiliation confers, we can receive tax- (707) 843-7266 deductible donations. These include not only cash but [email protected]. , bows, musical scores, method books, tuners, stands and other paraphernalia. Checks and Payments Update Especially since we now have a Youth Project working to Please send any checks and payments , including rental teach young people the viol, please remember the checks, to the new Treasurer, Alice Benedict, rather than chapter when you are cleaning out your music room. to Pj Savage. Cash donations can be used for new rental instruments Alice Benedict, Treasurer VdGS – Pacifica and bows, new music for the chapter playing library, the PO Box 9813 Pacifica Youth Project, or our scholarship fund. Berkeley, CA 94794 To ensure that your donation will be tax-deductible, please make out the check to SFEMS with a note on the lower left corner: “for VdGS-Pacifica.” Then send your www.pacificaviols.org donation check to Alice Benedict, Treasurer, VdGS- Our VdGS-Pacifica chapter website is maintained and Pacifica, P.O. Box 9813, Berkeley, CA 94709. She will regularly updated by Julie Morrisett. It contains the Viol forward your check to SFEMS. SFEMS will accept and Player’s Calendar, along with a list of local teachers, record the donation, then transfer the funds to us. You sources for music, supplies, inexpensive viols, repairs, will receive an acknowledgment letter from SFEMS for and travel tips. The VdGSA (national) website is your tax records. When you donate a viol or other www.vdgsa.org. materials, you will receive a letter citing the estimated Rent a Viol value of the instrument or materials for your tax records. Pacifica has trebles, tenors and basses to rent. Contributions Encouraged Donations of viols and bows to our rental program are We welcome your articles, photos, drawings, and re- extremely welcome–we’ll accept them in any condition. views of concerts, CD’s, music and books. Send contribu- Rental fees range from $15 to $30 per month. In charge of tions, ideas and suggestions to Peter Brodigan, rentals is John Mark, 10 Holyrood Manor, Oakland, CA [email protected]. 94611; (510) 531-1471; [email protected]. Send concert listings to Peter Brodigan, [email protected]. 2 For Sale Ask Miss Fret-Knot: A guide to consort manners, by Prudence Fret-Knot Gamba News is published by the Pacifica Chapter and Lyle York, is available for $14.95 plus shipping from Lazar Early of the da Gamba Society Music: www.LazarsEarlyMusic.com, [email protected], or (650) 938-5367. PACIFICA CHAPTER BOARD Visit Your Local Viol Builder! 7-string bass, Bertrand model, rich sound. President Dalton Cantey 6-string bass, Jaye model, bright and delightful to play. Treble, Hoskins model. Tenors and other bass models also available. Soft and hard [email protected] cases custom-fitted to your instrument. Repairs. Come by to try an Vice President Ricardo Hofer instrument, take a shop tour and learn about building viols, or for idle [email protected] chit-chat. Alexandra Saur, (510) 558-6927; (510) 559-9563, in Albany. Secretary Carolyn Butler Bow Rehair. Alexandra Saur is now offering rehairing for both modern and early bows. Top quality hair and quick turnaround! (510) 559-9563, [email protected] [email protected]. Treasurer Alice Benedict Ruby Instruments. The world’s first production model of a 7-string solid [email protected] body electric viola da gamba! Play traditional and crossover music on BOARD MEMBERS AT LARGE one instrument! To hear and play the Ruby, contact Kirby Leong, (510) 317-0834 or (510) 332-0834 (24-hour message); [email protected]. President Emerita Ellen Farwell Lazar’s Early Music [email protected] Viol bow, John Brasil, treble, 47 gms, $300. Rental Coordinator John Mark Viola da gamba, 6-string bass, Zuchowicz, 1983, 68 cm string length, [email protected] new Gamut strings, like-new condition, hard case. New bridge. Plays VdGSA Chapter Representative Lee McRae very nicely. Excellent example of Zuchowicz small bass. $7000 (new [email protected] price is $9200). Coaching Liaison Alexandra Saur Bow, Bass Viol, William Salchow, 73 gms, 71.7 cm stick, 57.8 cm free hair, [email protected] snakewood. $1200 Webmaster Julie Morrisett Bow, Renaissance, vielle, yew, 45 gms, clip-in frog, Linda Shortridge. [email protected] $300. Membership List Coordinator Roy Whelden Bow, Renaissance, snakewood, 72 gms, , clip-in frog, Linda Shortridge. [email protected] $400. Newsletter Editor Peter Brodigan Violin, , Paul Reap, Millom, Cumbria, March 1986, 12 3/4" string [email protected] length, 14 1/4" body. New bridge, soundpost and strings. Plays very nicely, some light dings in finish, but generally in very good condition. Peter Ballinger [email protected] $2000. John Dornenburg [email protected] Viola da gamba, treble, Uebel, 1966. 36.7 cm string length. Typical Robin Easterbrook [email protected] Uebel old German heavy viol; well-made; plays well but somewhat slow Mary Elliott [email protected] response. Carved rose and fingerboard. Some finish wear, but generally in good condition. Homemade hard case, new frets, new Ellen Fisher [email protected] Gamut strings. $1250. Julie Jeffrey [email protected] Viola da gamba, treble, unknown maker, 37 cm string length, female Josh Lee [email protected] carved head, antiqued to look like old instrument. Plays nicely, sweet Elisabeth Reed [email protected] tone. New frets, Gamut strings, soft case. $1950. Pj Savage [email protected] Pictures are available on www.LazarsEarlyMusic.com. Betsy St. Aubin [email protected] Contact Bill Lazar, [email protected], (650) 938-5367 for more information. EX OFFICIO Classified Ads Marie Dalby [email protected] Short classified advertisements in Gamba News are free to VdGS- Pacifica members. For nonmembers, ads are $5 per issue. Please mail your check made out to VdGS-Pacifica to Peter Brodigan, Editor, 737 Duncan Street, San Francisco, CA 94131.

3 2010 Pacifica Chapter Bash Saturday, June 5 @ 2:00 PM

The 2010 Bash is next weekend! The church will be open by noon for warm up, tuning, etc. Bring food, beverage (wine ok) to share (no cooking in the kitchen please). Fifteen groups have signed up to play! Please enjoy eating while the groups perform. There will also be a social hour afterwards. ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH 5201 Park Blvd-Oakland June 5, 2010 2:00 to 5:00 At press time, the tentative program is below. The order of performances may change.

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1. , Sonata in C minor: Largo, Andante, Vivace Celestini Kathy Cochran, recorder Jonathan Hall, Baroque Mary Reed, Ellen Farwell, viola da gamba 2. MATTHEW LOCKE, Suite No. 6 in F: Pavan & Ayre Karen Lassen, treble viol (world premiere) Mary Elliot, tenor viol (world premiere) Lyle York, bass viol (kind friend to above premieristas) 3. PIERRE CERTAN, “Je ne fus jamais si alse” , “Fuggiro tant’ Amore” JOHN COPERARIO, Fantasisa à 3 Alice Benedict, soprano voice, treble viol Lee McRae, tenor viol Mary Elliot, bass viol 4. C.F. ABEL, Sonata in G Marc Armitano, bass viol 5. TOBIAS HUME “Love’s Farewell” Peter Brodigan, bass viol 6. MICHEL CORRETTE, “Les delices de la solitude No. 2” in D minor Jamie Wai Man Jin, bass viol Lynn Robbie, harpsichord 7. MICHAEL EAST, Duet “Draw out the end” Carolyn Butler, bass viol Robin Easterbrook, bass viol 8. MARIN MARAIS, Trios: Rondeau, Plainte, in F Trio Vino Robin Easterbrook, bass viol Joan Lounsbery, bass viol Pj Savage, bass viol 9. LOUIS de CAIX d’HERVELOIS, “La Brion” Sally Blaker, bass viol Lyle York, bass viol 10. LOUIS COUPERIN, Fantaisie Lyle York, treble viol Mary Elliott, bass viol 4 11. JOHN WARD Italian , “Leggiardra sei” WILLIAM SIMMES, Phantasia No. 4 The Wednesday Viols Robin Easterbrook, treble viol John Mark, treble viol Lee McRae, tenor viol Ellen Farwell, tenor viol Ricardo Hofer, bass viol 12. MATTHEW LOCKE, Duet Julie Jeffrey, bass viol Peter Hallifax, bass viol 13. ON THE FRITZ John Mark & Robin Easterbrook, treble shooters Joan Lounsbery, K-bored 14. SERGEI RACHMANINOFF, “Vocalise”(adaption by John Mark) The Oakland V’S Marilyn Becker, pardessus John Mark, treble viol, Julie Morrisett, bass viol Ricardo Hofer, bass viol 15. ERIC SATIE, “Gymnopedie No. 1” (arranged by Marilyn Becker) TURLOUGH O’CAROLAN, “Carolan’s Welcome” The Violettes Marilyn Becker, viola da gamba Mary Elliot, viola da gamba Ellen Farwell, viola da gamba Lyle York, recorder Helen Tyrell, Finnish Kantele

BerkFest Are We

Trill, baby, trill! Viols are everywhere at the Berkeley and gained international stature. Bernhard was both Festival. Below is a list of the viol performances, many of and theorist, and succeeded Schütz as which feature members of the Pacifica Chapter. Full Kappellmeister in Dresden, in 1674. Both Schütz and details ,including venue addresses, are on the SFEMS Bernhard studied in Italy, so you will hear the influences website. of and from Sunday, June 6 Schütz's Venice sojourns, and from Bernhard's trips to Rome. Schütz held Bernhard in such Baroque Etcetera high esteem he commissioned him to write music for his Master & Student: Heinrich Schütz & Christopher own funeral. Bernhard Contact 510-540-8222 or [email protected] Jennifer Torresen, soprano; Kathryn Miller, mezzo- Program notes on website: www.baroquetc.org soprano; Richard Stumpf, bass & founder; Paula White & Jennie Mollica, violins; Kathy Cochran, ; Julie Galax Quartet Morrisett, viola da gamba; Howard Kadis, archlute; Dawn Bach's Art of Kooyumjian, organ Roy Wheldon, David Wilson, David Morris, Kati Kyme June 6, 3 pm June 6, 6 pm St. Joseph of Arimathea Trinity Chapel Tickets: $10 - no one turned away due to lack of funds Tickets: $25 general admission, $10 for SFEMS members, students and seniors This concert presents sacred vocal music of Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672) and Christoph Bernhard (1628-1692). The "Art of the Fugue," one of Bach's last and possibly Schütz was known as a composer and teacher, was the greatest works as orchestrated by Roy Wheldon for most esteemed German composer in the 17th century violin, viola, gamba and . 5 Monday, June 7 and David Morris, viola da gamba June 8, 4:00 pm Ensemble Aliento Trinity Chapel for Wind Instruments Tickets: $15/10 Nina Bailey, Mary Elliot, Tom Hill, Moira Little, Alan Paul, Glen Shannon Solo and trio sonatas of the Baroque Contact [email protected] or 510-559-4670. June 7, 8 pm Trinity Chapel Briarbird Tickets: 15/10 Four French Seasons: soprano duets by Charpentier; gamba and harpsichord sonatas by Corrette Sonatas, trios, and quartets by the likes of Telemann, Kaneez Munjee & Mara McMillan, sopranos; Lynn Fasch, and Schickhardt for recorder, and obscure. Robbie, harpsichord; Jamie Wai Man Jim, viola da gamba Contact 415.752oboe, traverso, bassoon, viola da gamba, June 8, 8 pm and harpsichord. Works both well-known .7290 or Trinity Chapel [email protected] Tickets: $15 general; $10 SFEMS, senior, student, disabled Vinaccesi Ensemble Marc-Antoine Charpentier wrote close to fifty pieces for Involto il tristo core: Venetian , , and Duets two sopranos, of which relatively few are well known. His Amy Brodo, Baroque cello/ gamba; Jonathan Davis, Quatuor annis tempestates (The Four Seasons), are joyous harpsichord; Sarge Gerbode, archlute; Nanette settings of texts from the Song of Songs, and, musically, McGuinness, soprano; Jonathan Smucker, tenor show off the influence of his time spent in Rome. June 7, 1 pm Briarbird intersperses these duets with excerpts from Trinity Chapel Michel Corrette's Les délices de la solitude (The Delights of Tickets: $15 general, $10 sfems, students, seniors & Solitude), written for any two bass instruments, and here disabled. Nobody turned away for lack of funds played by viola da gamba and harpsichord. Please join us The Vinaccesi Ensemble was founded in 2008 to perform for an evening of rare French Baroque treasures! the wonderful but virtually unknown cantatas of Contact [email protected] ; Website: www.briarbird.org Benedetto Vinaccesi. This concert features Baroque secular music from Venice: arias, duets, instrumental Wednesday, June 9 solos, and cantatas by Monteverdi, Cavalli, Strozzi, Barefoot Chamber Concerts d'India, Steffani, Dario Castello--and, of course, The Marais-a-thon: fabulous local and visiting soloists Benedetto Vinaccesi. play Marais all day or until the cake runs out Contact 510-549-3864 or Barefoot Chamber Concerts, your local fun-oriented [email protected] chamber music series, presents an all-day Marais-a-thon or see www.trinitychamberconcerts.com/2009- featuring (at last count, and many more to be added): 2010.html#d10fringe. Rebekah Ahrendt, Marie Dalby, Peter Hallifax, Shirley Tuesday, June 8 Hunt, Julie Jeffrey, David Morris, Farley Pearce, Elisabeth Reed, Colin Shipman, Bill Skeen, Yuko Tanaka, Lynn The Albany Consort Tetenbaum, Margriet Tindemans . . . . . High Baroque Rarely Heard Virtuoso Works June 9, 11 am - 7 pm Jonathan Salzedo, director St. Mark's Episcopal Church, in the Parish Hall Christa Pfeiffer, soprano; Marion Rubinstein, recorder; Tickets: $15 all day in/out pass Greer Ellison, Baroque flute; Laura Rubinstein-Salzedo, Aaron Westman, Tyler Lewis, violins; Amy Brodo, Shirley Music by Marais, mostly (but not only) for viol and Hunt, cello; Roy Whelden, ; Jonathan Salzedo, continuo, by local and visiting stars. This all-day concert is harpsichord a fun- and fund- raiser for the Viola da Gamba Society of America's Grants-in-Aid program. Over a dozen local and June 8, 11 am visiting players will play non-stop Marais. University Lutheran Chapel Tickets: $20 general/ $15 seniors, students, SFEMS, EMA There will be refreshments, T-shirts, and a prize for the and ARS members performance that most invokes the spirit of Gerard Depardieu. A full list of the performers and the full Bach - Triple Concerto for flute, violin and harpsichord; program will be posted on the Barefoot Chamber Telemann - Concerto for three violins; Concerts website. Vivaldi - Concerto for two ; Handel - for soprano and recorder Contact Peter Hallifax, 510 220 1195 or [email protected] Letitia Berlin, Yuko Tanaka, David Morris Website: www.barefootchamberconcerts.com Letitia Berlin, recorder, with Yuko Tanaka, harpsichord 6 Chatham Baroque with guest violinist Dana Maiben Glosa explores the art of the virtuoso during the late Fresh Ayre sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Using the June 9, 5 pm many treatises on ornamentation and division published Loper Chapel during this time, and the numerous examples of florid Tickets: 15/10 embellishment found in manuscript sources, Glosa Chatham Baroque, with Andrew Fouts, violin, Patricia uncovers the secret art and presents the unrestrained Halverson, viola da gamba, and Scott Pauley, thoerbo music of the true Renaissance virtuoso, in endlessly florid and , joined by the incomparable Dana versions of the most popular music of the time. Maiben for a program of Sonatas and Ayres from the Fair Iris and Her Swains British Isles by , Nicola Matties, George The Dialogue of Love: Cantatas and Duets of Purcell, Frideric Handel and Christopher Simpson. Rameau, Clerambault and J.S. Bach Contact 412 687 1788 or [email protected] Jennifer Paulino, soprano; Robert Stafford, bass- Website: www.chathambaroque.org baritone; David Morris, viola da gamba; Jonathan Rhodes Lee, harpsichord Coro Ciconia Westron Wind: John Taverner's Western Wind Mass June 10, 2-3 pm with songs of Guillaume Dufay St. Joseph of Arimathea Peter Fisher, director Tickets: $10 Alice Benedict, Sarah Knuth, Cheryl Koehler, sopranos; The Dialogue of Love: Cantatas and Duets of Purcell, Grayson Braxton, Nancy Lambert, Lee McRae, altos; Rameau, Clerambault and J.S. Bach Peter Fisher, Richard Walker, tenors; "Fair Iris and her swain Stephen Pitcher, Ralph Prince, Scott Robinson, basses; Were in a shady bower, Peter Fisher, tenor recorder; Ralph Prince, vielle Where Thyrsis long in vain June 9, 5:30-6:30 pm Had sought the happy hour" Berkeley City Club Join us in recreating the baroque dialogue of Love, from Tickets: $12/8 the playful and earthy late 17th century London of The Western Wind Mass of John Taverner (fl. 1490-1545), Purcell, through the wit and charm of early 18th century built on a melody of the early English poem, "Westron Paris, to the severe yet erotic Lutheran imagery of J. S. wind, when wilt thou blow," has been called one of the Bach's Weimar cantatas. ten best compositions in western music (by David Contact 415-308-3244 or [email protected] Tayler). Its clarity and simplicity make it immediately Harmonia Felice accessible to an audience, and the skill and variety of Music of Jacquet de la Guerre, Couperin, Marais for 2 compositional techniques satisfy the most sophisticated violins, 2 gambas, 2 cellos, 2 sopranos, continuo listener. Six of Guillaume Dufay's finest secular songs, Elizabeth Blumenstock, violin; Katherine Kyme, violin; and one gem by Johannes Ciconia complete our Amy Brodo, cello, viola da gamba; William Skeen, cello, program. Coro Ciconia, a chamber chorus with viola da gamba; Katherine Heater, harpsichord, organ; instruments specializing in music of the 14th & 15th Lucian Miranda, soprano; Andrea Fullington, soprano; centuries (don't miss our Trecento concert on Friday), has performed 10 previous Berkeley Festival programs June 10, 12noon since 1996. Trinity Chapel Tickets: $15, 10 (SFEMS students seniors) Contact (510) 843-0450 or [email protected] Sublime, spiritual, sensual music of in the Thursday, June 10 eighteenth century for various combinations of two violins, two gambas or two cellos, and two sopranos. Euphora Consort HIghly acclaimed in her own time, Elisabeth-Claude Glosa: Virtuosic Embellishment & Florid Ornamentation Jacquet de la Guerre was a child prodigy honored by of the Late Renaissance Louis XIV who published several volumes of harpsichord Amy White & Dominic Schaner, directors music, as well as chamber music, sacred cantatas based Shirley Hunt, viola da gamba; Andrew Levy, recorder; on the Old Testament and an . You will also hear Dominic Schaner, ; Amy White, soprano (Glosa) works by the cello virtuoso Jean Baptiste Barriere, music Peter Maund, percussion; Dominic Schaner, vihuela; Amy for violin by Marin Marais and not often performed White, soprano (Ávila) works by Francois Couperin. June 10, 2 pm Contact 510-697-3657 or Loper Chapel [email protected] Tickets: $15 general / $10 students & seniors or [email protected]

7 Wildcat Viols Wild Rose: folk & baroque performs a mixed program of Purcell: Fantazias for 3 and 4 Viols music spanning the 15th - 21st centuries on folk and Barefoot Chamber Concerts presents Wildcat Viols . (Joanna Blendulf, Julie Jeffrey, Elisabeth Reed, viols) with Contact 510 559-4670 or [email protected] guest violist Annalisa Pappano. June 10, 12 noon Saturday, June 12 St. Mark's Episcopal, Parish Hall Music's Re-creation Tickets: $15, $13 Seniors/students/SFEMS, all tickets Early English Baroque Masters cheaper online (see website) Carla Moore, violin; John Dornenburg, Viola da Gamba; The 3- and 4- part Fantasies for viols of Henry Purcell. In Lorna Peters, Harpsichord the late 17th century, when the nearly 200 year long Saturday, June 12, 5:00pm tradition of writing contrapuntal fantasies for a consort First Congregational Church of viols was all but extinct, the usually forward looking Tickets: $25 Henry Purcell composed what was to become the The music of , John Jenkins, William Young, magnificent swan song of the genre. This extraordinary and Matthew Locke occupies a special place between the collection combines the chromatic passion of the Golden Age of the English Renaissance fantasia and the modern, dramatic style, and Purcell's idiomatic angular new Baroque genres of the suite and sonata. Swift (but elegant) melodies with the compositional Italianate virtuosity is set to the particularly poignant techniques that date back to Taverner. English harmonic language, resulting in music that is both Contact Peter Hallifax, 510 220 1195 or emotionally charged and unlike any other style. CLASSIC [email protected] NET writes that Music's Re-creation's performance of Website: www.barefootchamberconcerts.com Jenkins and Locke is "varied, subtle, gentle, and exciting music for strings and keyboard by practitioners who play Friday, June 11 with great insight and sensitivity." The Marion Verbruggen Trio Website: www.sfems.org/musicsre-creation The Virtuoso Recorder Musica Pacifica Marion Verbruggen, recorder; Margriet Tindemans, viola Dancing in the Isles da gamba; Jillon Stoppels Dupree, harpsichord Judith Linsenberg, recorder; Elizabeth Blumenstock and Friday, June 11, 2010. 5:00 pm Robert Mealy, violins; David Morris cello/viola da gamba; First Congregational Church Charles Sherman, harpsichord; Peter Maund, percussion Tickets: $38 premier section/$32 all other seats June 12, 3:00 pm Three of the brightest stars in the early music firmament Berkeley City Club align in this dazzling concert of masterpieces from the Tickets: $20/15 Baroque. Travel with the Marion Verbruggen Trio as they "DANCING IN THE ISLES" - Rousing Baroque Folk and tour from Germany to France. The German style is heard Dance Music from Scotland, Ireland, and England - a in sonatas and trio sonatas by its most famous celebration of our upcoming CD! Telemann, Handel and J.S.Bach. France is The program includes Musica Pacifica’s original represented by the seventeenth-century viola da gamba arrangements of traditional Irish and Scottish folk tunes, virtuoso Marin Marais in his homage to his teacher, the English country dance tunes, a Purcell theater suite, ' de Mr. de Ste. Colombe' and in the famous Jacobean masque music, a sonata "a la Scozzese" by Folies d'Espagne (French in spite of its title and here Veracini, and Purcell’s famous "Three Parts upon a performed on recorder). Bridging the gap is Bach's Ground." French Suite for harpsichord solo. Contact 510 444-4113 or [email protected]. Wild Rose: folk and baroque Website: www.musicapacifica.org Shira Kammen & Friends: music spanning 15th-21st century on folk & baroque instruments Margriet Tindemans Shira Kammen, Frances Blaker, Letitia Berlin, Joey Margriet Tindemans Master Class O'Donnell, Barbara Blaker Krumdieck and Henry Internationally famous performer and gamba teacher, Lebedinsky Margriet Tindemans, will be conducting a masterclass for students and auditors as part of The Berkeley Festival XX. June 11, 3 pm Trinity Chapel June 12, 1:30 - 5:30pm Tickets: $15 general, $10 sfems, students, seniors & Music Sources disabled. Nobody turned away for lack of funds Tickets: FREE event

8 Margriet Tindemans has been called a rare combination Commissioned by The Museum of Jurassic Technology in of charismatic performing and inspiring teaching, a Los Angeles and premiered in January in the Museum's scholar with profound knowledge of music, poetry and Tula Tea Room, Agave Baroque's Cold Genius centers art of the Middle Ages, "a national treasure." A student around the intensely engaging music of Henry Purcell. of in Brussels, she was awarded the Parts I and II are all-Purcell, and feature fantasia, sonata, "Prix d'Excellence" with honor. She excels as a player of song, and drama. Part III features two enchanting and early stringed instruments, from the medieval fiddle and rarely performed Consorts by William Lawes, a rebec to baroque viola and voila da gamba. She was a ravishing suite by Matthew Locke, and two rustic and founding member of the German ensemble Sequentia, virtuosic arias by Nicola Matteis. and the Huelgas Ensemble of Belgum, and currently This is your chance to hear Cold Genius just before Agave performs and records with Medieval Strings, Seattle Baroque goes to the studio to record it, as well as to Baroque Orchesta, and Pacific Operaworks. She will be collaborate on an art-film with MJT, to be released teaching at the San Francisco Early Music Society alongside the album. Medieval & Renaissance Summer Workshop, June 27-July Contact 707.490-2601 or [email protected] 3rd. Website: www.agavebaroque.org Contact 510 848 5591 or [email protected] The Albany Consort Website: www.Pacificaviols.org More Rarely Heard Virtuoso Orchestral Works Alta Sonora, Les Violes Douces & Friends Jonathan Salzedo, director Victoria Vespers Christa Pfeiffer, soprano; Marion Rubinstein, recorder; Alta Sonora: John Harris, ; Peggy Murray, alto & Greer Ellison, Baroque flute; Laura Rubinstein-Salzedo, bass dulcian; Mary Ellen Reed, alto dulcian; with special Aaron Westman, Tyler Lewis, violins; Amy Brodo, Shirley guest Joyce Johnson-Hamilton, cornetto Hunt, cello; Roy Whelden, violone; Jonathan Salzedo, Les Violes Douces: Glenna Houle, treble viol; Margaret harpsichord Cohen, tenor viol; Lisa Silverman, bass viol; Mary Elliott, June 13, 2 pm bass viol University Lutheran Chapel Singers: Alice Benedict and Christina Schiffner, sopranos; Tickets: $20 general/ $15 seniors, students, SFEMS, EMA Jim Denton, tenor; John Conry, bass and ARS members June 12, 12 noon - 1 pm Bach- Suite in A minor for soprano recorder and strings Trinity Chapel Bach- Cantata 82a Tickets: $15 general; $10 SFEMS/students/seniors Handel- Cantata for soprano and recorder Twenty five years before Monteverdi wrote his Vespers, Quantz- Trio for recorder. flute and continuo the great Spanish composer Tomás Luis Victoria Contact 408 773-0375 or [email protected] published double and triple choir Vespers psalms in high Website: www.albanyconsort.com Renaissance polyphonic style. Most large Spanish cathedrals employed wind bands to perform regularly in La Foolia! their services, so in that tradition, we will use cornetto, La Foolia! - The Grand Tour sackbut and dulcians along with singers and viols to Susan Rode Morris, Shira Kammen, Katherine Westine, present a selection of these glorious polychoral works Phebe Craig, and David Morris .... with their and other Vespers pieces. doppelgaengers and hangers-on. Contact 510-233-0868 or [email protected] June 13, 11 am Berkeley Piano Club Sunday, June 13 Tickets: $15 general/$12 SFEMS members, seniors, students donation Agave Baroque Ensemble Cold Genius: instrumental and dramatic music of Henry Foolia's five talented Von Trump sisters (Susan Rode Purcell, William Lawes, Matthew Locke, and Nicola Morris, Shira Kammen, Katherine Westine and Phebe Matteis Craig and special guest raconteuse David Morris) take to Aaron Westman, ~ Shirley Hunt, viola da the road, wreaking havoc upon the capitals of Europe gamba ~ JungHae Kim, harpsichord ~ Kevin Cooper, and revealing shocking musical adventures along the baroque guitar ~ with Daniel Zuluaga, way. In 3-D. June 13, 1:30 pm Contact 510 601-9631 or [email protected] Music Sources Tickets: $15 general/$10 students, seniors, and sfems members

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